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Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.

Saint Augustine

Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.
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Body Die Forever Future Live Soul Take Care
The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.
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Book Compose Growth Mature
He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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Fashion Hell One Liner
Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.
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Angel Dance Heaven Learn
God gives where he finds empty hands.
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Empty Giving God Hands
Love endures in adversity, is moderate in prosperity; brave under harsh sufferings, cheerful in good works; utterly reliable in temptation, utterly open-handed in hospitality; as happy as can be among true brothers and sisters, as patient as you can get among the false one’s.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Adversity Brave Cheer Endurance Love Moderate Prosperity Suffering
God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.
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God Money Need Poor Receive
We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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God One Liner Speak Teaching
Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.
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Future God Love Mercy Past Present Provide Trust
Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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Love Mortal Slave Soul Unhappy
Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.
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God Lord
If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Goodness Live Time
I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love. I sought what I might love, in love with loving.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Love Philosophy
Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision.
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Decision Earthquake Errupt Love Madness Temporary
Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls.
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Acceptance Believe Heaven Rational Reason Seek Soul
Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Believe Faith Inspirational Reward Understand

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